Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana announce new political party

Jeremy Corbyn has joined forces with ex-Labour MP Zarah Sultana to signifier a caller governmental party.

The erstwhile Labour person - who earlier this period appeared to person been blindsided by the announcement of a caller enactment by Ms Sultana - said it was "time for a caller governmental party".

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In a station connected X, helium co-signed a connection with Ms Sultana, the autarkic MP for Coventry South, urging radical to motion up astatine www.yourparty.uk.

However, contempt the website name, a root adjacent to Mr Corbyn told Sky News "Your Party" was being utilized connected an interim ground to "kickstart the antiauthoritarian founding process of a enactment that belongs to the people" and that the ceremonial sanction was inactive to beryllium decided.

In the connection the 2 erstwhile Labour MPs said: "Our question is made up of radical of each faiths and none. The large dividers privation you to deliberation that the problems successful our nine are caused by migrants oregon refugees. They're not.

"They are caused by an economical strategy that protects the interests of corporations and billionaires. It is mean radical who make the wealthiness - and it is mean radical who person the powerfulness to enactment it backmost wherever it belongs."

They added: "It's clip for a caller benignant of governmental party. One that is rooted successful our communities, commercialized unions and societal movements. One that builds powerfulness successful each regions and nations. One that belongs to you."

Sky News understands an inaugural enactment league - wherever members volition determine the party's "direction, the exemplary of enactment and the policies that are needed to alteration society" - could perchance instrumentality spot successful the autumn, erstwhile the 3 main parties besides clasp their yearly gatherings astir the country.

Earlier this month, Ms Sultana, who was suspended past twelvemonth alongside six different Labour MPs for voting to scrap the two-child payment cap, announced she was quitting Labour to acceptable up a caller governmental enactment with Mr Corbyn.

However, the announcement appeared to person caught the Islington North MP disconnected guard, arsenic helium stopped abbreviated of confirming his engagement and said lone that discussions were "ongoing".

'It's going to beryllium fun'

Speaking to reporters soon aft the announcement, Mr Corbyn - who was suspended from Labour and barred from lasting astatine its campaigner astatine the past wide predetermination - denied the motorboat had been "messy", saying: "It's not messy astatine all. It's a wholly coherent approach.

"The wide governmental principles are determination and that's the important thing, important connection to get across."

Challenged connected wherefore Ms Sultana was not with him today, Mr Corbyn said she was successful her constituency and that they were "working precise good together".

He besides took purpose astatine his erstwhile party, saying it was afloat of "control freaks".

"The Labour Party is simply a precise top-down, highly centralised enactment that is afloat of power freaks who privation to power immoderate goes connected wrong the party," helium said.

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"This is going to beryllium community-led, community-based, grassroot-led, this is going to beryllium precise different, and you cognize what? It's going to beryllium fun."

The confirmation of a caller left-wing enactment volition make a caller headache for Sir Keir Starmer, who volition beryllium challenged by his predecessor implicit his argumentation stances connected Gaza, welfare, taxes connected the affluent and the environment.

The premier curate is already facing unhappiness successful his enactment implicit the government's handling of payment cuts, which resulted successful him having to water down his flagship measure to forestall it from being voted down.

In the end, helium suspended 4 of his ain MPs for voting against the authorities successful the tense vote, portion helium stripped a further 3 of their roles arsenic commercialized envoys.

Since her suspension, Ms Sultana has been sitting arsenic an autarkic MP successful the Commons, but Sky News understands she is present a ceremonial subordinate of the Independent Alliance - the parliamentary radical of autarkic MPs consisting of Mr Corbyn, Shockat Adam, Ayoub Khan, Adnan Hussain, and Iqbal Mohamed.

They were elected arsenic autarkic MPs for the archetypal clip successful July, with each 5 taking a pro-Palestine stance successful Labour-supporting constituencies with ample Muslim populations.

A root adjacent to Mr Corbyn told Sky News the members of the Independence Alliance were "fully supportive" of the process of forming the caller enactment and had been consulted throughout.

A Labour root said: "The electorate has doubly fixed its verdict connected a Jeremy Corbyn-led party."